Thursday, September 6, 2012

Tribute to the Long Lost Locks

This blog is dedicated to my
children who felt the need to inform me of the situation. They did so gingerly,
too. Even posting on my wall.

Once every couple years, something
knocks me through a loop and saddens me. The death of Ronald Reagan made me
mourn for weeks, Charlton Heston’s death, even 5 years later is still real to me,
one of my husbands left me – as painful as that was, it passed. But … this …
this … I’m still not sure I’ll recover.

Professional Wrestler Triple H,
my future 4th ex husband, cut off his long hair. WHAT? He didn’t just
cut it, he took a pair of clippers and shaved it.

I am shocked and devastated by
this. You need to understand as a demented writer, this man, in his image
graced my writing room wall. I envisioned him as Mick Owens in The Flu as I
painstakingly wrote each passage.

I personally perfected his ring
entrance, including the ‘flip my hair and spit out water thing’. Although the
people in my house weren’t amused by that.

“Mom, come on, you’re old. You
don’t flip your hair and spit.”

Hating to admit it, the age thing
was probably the reason I got dizzy and lost my balance when I flipped my hair..

Those who know me, know I am
obsessed with this wrestler and have been for a decade. I mourned when he
ripped his quad and was out for nine months.

This is going to take some time.
Let me take a moment to reflect.

Ok.

I keep telling myself maybe he
did it for Locks of Love, or to help his friend Shawn Michaels embrace the
baldness. Shawn sadly is going bald and now has resorted to that swopping thing
with his hair.

Ironically it came on the heels
of my getting old blog. Perhaps he read it and was inspired to cut his hair in
the wake of his approaching 50th birthday. I just hope that Miley
Cyrus didn’t inspire him. Maybe she did. Who knows.

But they’re gone. And this blog
is my memorial to this long hair.

Yes, I know the hair isn’t
everything. But when the image of the man and what he looks like is a focal
point and inspiration to writing, it’s… it’s character killing.